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Council tightens belt and stance
Yes: A Waimarama beach reserve. No: A plaque for Moko the dolphin
statue.
Maybe: A Te Mata Peak visitor centre.
By NEILL GORDON
neill.gordon@napiermail.co.nz
A $300,000 contribution towards
the purchase of a Waimarama
beachfront reserve was one of just
two funding applications agreed to
by the Hawke s Bay Regional
Council following annual plan
submission hearings last week.
The other green light was
$10,000 for a regional sports
strategy. A dozen diverse
applications were rejected but
further investigation agreed to
two costly projects -- a Te Mata
Peak visitors centre and Bridge
Pa wineries cycle trail. The door
was also left open on $2.5m for the
Regional Sports Park.
Following two days of hearings
the council s job on Friday was to
agree on responses to 47
submissions, making for a time-
pressured and occasionally testy
meeting.
Despite some discord, council-
lors seemed generally united in
their desire to counter their repu-
tation as a soft touch for funding.
Discussion over an application
from the Waipawa Settlers
Museum for $4600 for glass
cabinets set the tone.
Cr Alan Dick, explaining why
he opposed it, said there was a
growing perception the council
is a funding body like the Eastern
and Central Community Trust or
the Lotteries Board and acceding
to requests like this, albeit
worthy, will simply reinforce
that .
Cr Ewan McGregor said he too
would vote against it although it
hurts as he was the founding
chairman of the museum.
We re in difficult times and
we re going to run a tight budget.
The request was voted down
along with Wairoa Museum s
$10,000 for photographic cata-
loguing, a plaque for a Moko the
dolphin statue at Mahia ($1500),
Film Hawke s Bay annual run-
ning costs ($20,000), A&P Society
($25,000), purchase of 15.8ha by
the Puketapu/Fernhill Reserve
Trust ($100,000), Waiohiki Com-
munity Complex ($500,000) and
Napier Aquahawks proposal for a
regional swimming pools strategy.
The council supported the Te
Mata Peak Trust Board s
proposed visitors centre but not
without consulting ratepayers and
not necessarily with the $1.2
million requested, which repres-
ented 40 per cent of the $3m proj-
ect. Cr Dick said this made the
$100,000 from Hastings District
Council seem quite inadequate .
Sports Park Hawke s Bay asked
the council to reallocate $2.5m
previously committed to the
velodrome bid -- which fell over in
March -- to other unspecified
facilities at the park.
Cr McGregor said he supported
the park absolutely while others
said any new park project would
have to be clearly regional and
approved by ratepayer consul-
tation before any of the $2.5m was
reallocated.
The Hawke s Bay Trails Group
sought $375,000 for 15 kilometres
of limestone cycle trail alongside
roads between Unison and Sileni
estates, taking in nine Bridge Pa
wineries.
Cr Liz Remmerswal, who is a
member of the trails group, said
the route was already popular but
dangerous because cyclists were
sharing the road with traffic trav-
elling at 100kmh or more.
The council agreed to further
investigate the project.
A group of prominent primary
producers calling itself Pure
Hawke s Bay asked the council to
regulate to preserve the region s
current status as a GM-free food
producer.
The council voted to investigate
the issue and conduct community-
wide consultation.
A request from the Cape Coast
Community Group for the council
to partner with the Hastings Dis-
trict Council to seek a resource
consent -- about $500,000 -- from
the Environment Court for a hard
engineering solution to coastal
erosion between Haumoana and
Clifton was rejected.
Cr Christine Scott said there
were many areas of the Hawke s
Bay coast under threat of erosion.
Chairman Fenton Wilson said
the council had gone as far as we
can in the exploration of the proj-
ect. We now need to sit back and
be very clear in our role. We are
the regulator.